| Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| I dream my painting and then paint my dream. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions? |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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| I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. |
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- Vincent van Gogh |
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